APRIL 26, 2019 / 12:28 AM / UPDATED 2 HOURS AGO

Over 1,000 migrants break out of southern Mexico detention center

Photo: Migrants are seen inside a van after being recaptured near the Siglo XXI immigrant detention center after a large group of Cubans, Haitians and Central Americans broke out and escaped the facilities, in Tapachula, Mexico April 25, 2019.

Article: TAPACHULA (Reuters) - More than a thousand migrants broke out of a detention center in southern Mexico on Thursday evening, authorities said, in a fresh sign of how a surge in arrivals has stretched the country’s resources to the limit.

More than half of the roughly 1,300 migrants later returned to the Siglo XXI facility in the border city of Tapachula in Chiapas state, but about 600 are still unaccounted for, the National Migration Institute said in a statement.

MOAR: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-mexico/over-1000-migrants-break-out-of-southern-mexico-detention-center-idUSKCN1S209B